Writer | Educator | Math Enthusiast
Awards
Leila Abu-Saba Memorial Prize, Mills College, 2019
Melody Clarke Teppola Prize in Creative Writing Fiction (Honorable Mention), 2019
Fred T. Haley Writing Award, UW Tacoma, 2015
Publications
2020
“all this blood” & “old gods & men” Poets of Mills College
“Eulogy” Hobart (forthcoming)
“On Finding Poetry and Place” Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets, Black Lawrence Press (January)
2019
“Mile 183” BULL
“Big Al’s Pet Emporium” Cutbank
“Out on the Lake” Pithead Chapel
“Pain Relief” Microfiction Monday
“On Fullness” Rivet Journal
“Plastic Houses” Punctuate
2018
“For Keeping” Goat’s Milk Magazine
“Spark” Lunch Ticket
“Birth Day” Pacifica Literary Review
2017
“Photo(stream of consciousness) in reverse” & “A Black Wasp Flew Into the Pool” Crab Fat Magazine
“creation” The Fem
2016
“Beauty and Being” The Los Angeles Review, Vol 20
2015
“Spray” & “Carousel Horse” Tahoma West
Education
M.F.A Creative Writing Prose, Mills College, 2020
M.Ed. Secondary Mathematics Education, UCLA, 2016
B.A. Creative Writing, Mathematics Minor, University of Washington, 2015
About
Kari Treese is a writer, educator, and math enthusiast. Originally from Southern California, Kari is currently living and working in the San Fransisco Bay Area. She’s a fiction reader at Atticus Review. Kari’s a fish person, for whatever that’s worth.
At Mills College, Kari is pursing an MFA in Creative Writing (emphasis in prose) and is in her final semester. She’s the managing editor at 580 Split, Mills’ nationally distributed literary journal, and a graduate teaching assistant working with senior undergraduate students.
Connect
Events
10/29/2019 Works In Progress @ Rothwell Theater, Mills College 5:30 PM
5/12/2019 Flash Fiction @ The Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland, CA 5 PM
Rigor and Compassion in the Writing Classroom: “Letter to a Future Writer: Marginalia and Instructor Feedback in College Writing”—December 2018 @ Mills College
Math Enthusiast Speaker Series, University of Washington—January 2017
Tahoma West Issue Release Reading—May 2015
Writing Studies Student Showcase—May 2015
Poetry Flash Mob—April 2015
Dada Artists on Campus—April 2015
Writing for Social Change: One Act Student Plays—December 2014
